Thanks paradoxically to nature's recent fury, there is a chance to pause and think about how best to shape a livable tomorrow directed by the kinds of limits that ultimately foster exactly such sustained growth.

A hit has been ordered against the skyline of New York City. This new plan of Mayor Bloomberg's for taking down older office buildings in the Empire State building area and putting up colossal replacement buildings to attract more CEOs to the city, is a nightmare of vandalism in the name of progress.

Committed to exploring the multiple intersections between art and urbanism, Aurash Khawarzad speaks about creating the post-Hipster city, gentrification, and what it means to (re)build New York City from the ground up.